Nevada 3.0 - The state of education:

Striving to provide quality choices for students

Sen. Scott Hammond

Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 | 2:02 a.m.

I remember as a sophomore in high school expressing to my biology teacher the hope I had to someday become a teacher myself. A lot has changed since that day in biology class, but what hasn’t changed is my passion for learning and for teaching. Now, 14 years after my first day in the classroom, I’m honored to fight for a quality education in our schools through four distinct, but equally important, roles: as a parent; as a Clark County School District teacher; as a founding board member for Somerset Academy, a high-performing charter school in Las Vegas; and as ...

State Sen. Scott Hammond, R-Las Vegas, represents District 18.

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By sebring (Sebring Frehner)

Feb. 24, 2013

8:32 a.m.

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The fact that Hammond cites the already debunked StudentsFirst, based only on how easy it is to start up chains of charter schools, and not a legitimate ranking system of quality shows that he has little understanding of how to improve our state's education systems. It should come as no surprise that the nations school districts that ranked the poorest on StudentsFirst's ranking are also the highest ranking in real quality measures.
In this regard, Nevada should be striving to be the lowest ranked state on Michelle Rhee's ideology based StudentsFirst ranking rather than the highest.